I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that… it’d be that Don Quixote feeling, that I’d have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you’ve got to do it. That’s the only way you can do things.
OLIVER STONEThe truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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For some reason, television still bores me. Even the best shows.
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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises.
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We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.
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I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.
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You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It’s hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that’s great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we’ll see.
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I think a lot of people misunderstand what I’m doing, because my films are not easy sometimes. They do deserve a second viewing. I think they get misunderstood easily.
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I’m interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
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writing = ass + chair
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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Horses are very difficult to shoot.
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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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